September 22, 2007

• Weekend Trivial Trivia

  I’ve had a great week.  We’re all suffering a bit from allergies; but, compared to what I’ve been through – allergies are a piece of cake!  I haven’t been bothered with hay fever in 30 years and I forgot what a blessing it is to not sneeze or have watery eyes.  I guess we all get busy with daily chores and life in general and tend to take things for granted – like our health.

  We’ve done a lot of homeschool work this week.  I actually busted open our new globe!!!  I have the girls in two “classrooms” this year.  Annamarie is at the kitchen table – the most familiar atmosphere for her (familiarity is what she needs), and Rissy has moved to the dining room table.  I’ll have to leave the table pad on the table all the time, but I’m so glad I have a second work area.  I still plan to bring them together for science, social studies, geography, and Bible study.  Annamarie (7 1/2) is in preschool books and Rissy (6 1/2) is in advanced first grade.  I don’t think some subjects matter because they are based on discussions, but reading, phonics, spelling, and math definitely create problems.

  I’ve been thinking about changing the girls’ rooms around – maybe putting Annamarie with Luci and letting Rissy have a room to herself, but I really need to put those thoughts out of my head until I’m able to do routine things around the house easily.  Moving furniture and rooms around definitely isn’t a top priority (or ANY kind of priority) right now.  But, I can dream . . .

  This morning, Jesse is working with two other guys taking down a huge tree.  Then, he has a cleanup job early this afternoon.  He’ll have the help of his two friends all day.  Otherwise, I would probably not get to see him until dark!!!  He just got a new job from a man who manages leased houses.  Jesse gained around 75 – 100 new houses.  Enough to keep him busy, I guess!

  My tomato plants remain confused.  I picked 2 of my 3 large tomatoes this morning and I saw lots of cherry tomatoes (green and little) on the other 2 plants.  I thought my basil would die, but it’s blooming little flowers like crazy and seems to be happy.  I wish I knew how to garner seeds from those flowers, but they flower, wither, and fall off the plant.  What weird weather!  Tomatoes at the end of September!

  I had Tango (the bird) out of her cage this morning – on my shoulder – and she surprised me by whistling “pretty bird” and then the wolf whistle immediately after that.  I told her to call the dog and she whistled the same whistle we use when calling the dog.  She also kept leaning toward my face making kissing noises, but I don’t trust her enough to let my lips get near her.  She still lunges and “play” pecks and that isn’t something I want to have happen on my lips!  I need to clean her cage today and make that my big project.  It’s a mess on the bottom and can’t be healthy for her (or us).

  The girls are roller skating through the house and whizzing by me as I type.  When they first got skates it was horribly cold (winter) outside and I didn’t have the heart to NOT let them skate – so they’ve always skated indoors.  My carpet is so old, skates can’t hurt it.  At least as they learned to skate, they had a bit of padding when they repeatedly fell.  Our patio is large, but not enough to skate any great distance and they aren’t allowed to play in the front yard.  That leaves . . . inside the house!  I wish I had my camera so I could share the “look” -  nightgowns and skates!

  Okay, this is a mish mosh post of random thoughts.  Is that how you spell mish mosh? 

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